As - Galba LIBERTAS PVBLICA S C, Libertas

Galba's reign lasted seven months. The LIBERTAS PVBLICA coinage was programmatic from the start — a direct repudiation of Nero, whose final years had seen the Senate stripped of meaningful function and prominent citizens executed on whim. Galba leveraged the libertас theme aggressively across his bronze issues to court senatorial legitimacy, which is why the S·C appears so deliberately on the reverse.

He was murdered in the Forum on January 15, 69 AD, his head paraded on a pole before his body was left in the street. Short reigns mean compressed production windows.